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Filmmaker Spike Jonze is apparently not content to just settle for the most talented cast in Hollywood to join his next film. Evidently he wants the most beautiful one as well. In a Deadline report about Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions landing international rights from for Jonze's next untitled project, the trade drops the little nugget of info that Olivia Wilde has also joined the cast.

I just fnished reading "Mockingjay," the third and final "Hunger Games" installment. Fair to say, the plot thickens and the action gets even more intense in "Catching Fire" and "Mockingjay" as Katniss Everdeen and her two rival swains Gale and Peeta go through several rings of fire.

Well, we gave up on the second season of "The Killing" after being jerked around way too much by a plot that refuses to do anything, but the stars of the show don't have to worry about their Hollywood prospects. Joel Kinnaman has already popped up in a couple of movies and stars in the summer's indie rom-com "Lola Versus" and is slated to be the next "RoboCop." Meanwhile, Mirielle Enos has already bagged roles in "World War Z" with Brad Pitt and "Gangster Squad" with Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin, Emma Stone and a zillion other people, and now she's joining another film with an equally impressive roster.

Well in case you missed it, the first trailer for "Les Miserables" dropped this morning and if anything, it proved that no matter how scrappy the clothes or terrible the haircut, Anne Hathaway can carry a tune. And it looks like she's got another musical project brewing, though it's not a sure thing just yet.

One of the breakout hits at SXSW 2012 was Amy Seimetz's feature directing debut, the steamy Florida noir "Sun Don't Shine," a well-shot micro-budget portrait of a couple on the run for murder. The film will play at Rooftop Films' Annual Summer Series June 9th in a selection of SXSW films making their New York premieres, and will also head for the Edinburgh Film Festival on June 21. It still seeks a North American distributor.

I don't know what the fuck is going on, but summer 2012 is off to a crazy, crazy start. Aside from all the zombie-like behavior happening south of the border, Canada (and namely, Montreal) has been a rather remarkable shitshow these past few days. On the positive end of said shitshow, is the student protests. But even in their positivity, they have created an oddly out-of-this-world atmosphere in Montreal when every night there's thousands of people in the streets banging pots and pans.